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Accessing Your Floppies

When you are using the PC based workstations, you can access the floppy drive using a set of software tools for manipulating MS-DOS or Windows files, called mtools. Using these tools you are able to copy MS-DOS files to your UNIX environment, and back again. For example, to copy a MS-DOS file called ass1.m from a floppy to the current directory type:

% mcopy a:/ass1.m .

To copy a file called ass1.m from your current directory to the top directory on your floppy disk, type:

% mcopy ass1.m a:

Note that the conversion between UNIX and MS-DOS format is handled for you.

To get a directory listing of the floppy disk, type:

% mdir

These tools are discussed further in Floppy Disk Commands (section 2.3.3, page ). There are many other tools available in the mtools suite. To find out more about them have a look at the online manual pages.

% man mtools